Night out with parents

My younger teenager woke up with a severe pounding headache.  Despite that she managed to go for her drum lesson.  Amazing!

The previous night we had dinner with a group of close friends.  Fantastic home cooked Thai food.  And great chicken wings.  Then the wine came out followed by beer.  My younger teenager wanted to try drinking and to me, what better time than this when she was in the company of family friends and her parents.  To top it all, the great host had her favourite Belgium beer – Hoegaarden. 

I let her drink to her heart’s content thinking that she would stop after two bottles.  How wrong could I get!!!  I had forgotten she had her parents’ genes.  The good news was that she could hold her drinks but not her bladder!   So it was multiple trips to the toilet and some trips in not so straight a walking line…..

She had thought she would feel out of place being the only teenager in the company of her parents' friends.  Her parents' friends are after all over 50 years of age.  She found to her surprise she enjoyed herself immensely.  Yes, she had fun and the jokes though were odd to her, she managed to understand and had many good laughs.

It was especially hilarious when one of the ladies demonstrated the dramatic Chinese hair flick……

 

discovering that her father, in his heydays, was a part of the "Freakos" group and had attempted the "Night Fever" dance moves ....

and the highlight - when the host went on a rendition of “George of the Jungle”

Yes!  She discovered being in the company of her parents' friends could be fun after all. To quote her telling her sister :

“It was the best night ever.  So fun!  The host was so funny.  I had so much fun!”